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Seeking a fair share
TO EXPECT that Parliament will one day smoothly adopt a legislation to reserve one-third of all seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women is to believe that men, who dominate these bodies with a more than 90 per cent majority, would ...

The record elsewhere
IN SUB-SAHARAN Africa, women are better represented in the national legislatures than in most of the more `developed' world. And this includes the U.S. where only 14.3 per cent of the members of the lower house are women. In fact, the ...

Double-speak
IN THE high drama that was played out in the Lok Sabha on May 6, members of the Shiv Sena, the Samajwadi Party, theSamata Party, the JD(U) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal emerged as the obvious villains who silenced the majority voice represented by ...

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